Margo
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We simply need boundaries & draw lines for ourselves. It goes back to scheduling most tasks and batching (doing a series of like tasks in a designated time slot).
Food, fun, romance, technology are all good, but not if any one of them were all we ever did. A good life is about BALANCE and drawing boundaries-No one will do it for us.

There will always be a hundred new techno toys and apps per hour. We are not machines! We can’t “play” with them all, nor should we want to. Pick the vital few that work for you and make them into a system.

There is nothing wrong with only checking email and doing @replies once or twice a day, doing FB page posts every other day, cutting the workday off at 4pm, and leaving the weekends for family, friends, and refreshment! Otherwise, where does quality of life go?

This cartoon that left in his comment (above) says it all!

Thanks,

Margo DeGange
Margo DeGange´s last [type] ..Simple Ways to Get Control of Your Business & Social Media!

Any desktop client that allows you to aggregate and subdivide your data-stream and conversations into lists, is helpful.

The next thing is schedules.

Set a time for social media activities and stay away from it the rest of the time. We don’t hang around our fax machines, so why hang around Twitter?

The OFF button

We need to remind ourselves that we cannot absorb all of the possible data out there to convert into information, much less wisdom. We need to stop having panic attacks because we are afraid we are missing something.

That works for me!
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